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Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower is stealing her fiancé. Silver Fawn sets out in pursuit and jealously attacks Wild Flower. They fall into the river but are rescued by Gray Fox.

When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon has to hold off a pair of ruffians who are bent on stealing the payroll from an arriving train.

The brother at cards failed to make up the shortage at the express office, but the gambler determined to save him. His intention, however, was misconstrued until the sheriff's investigation brought the truth. The gambler then awoke to the justice of the girl's plea against his previous life and the tragedy of a dead brother's weakness was lightened.

A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband. When the younger brother proves to be a coward, she chooses the older brother instead.

Mrs. Brown is decidedly careless with her jewelry, leaving it lie around in easy access to anyone who might enter. Wishing to teach her a lesson, Mr. Brown writes a letter to his actor friend to enter his house as a burglar to scare her. But on second thought, Brown decides to play burglar himself. Wifey, however, finds the letter and sends it, and so when a real burglar appears upon the scene, she thinks him her hubby's friend and treats him royally. The actor enters almost simultaneous with Brown, and, each thinking the other the real article, a fight ensues. Meanwhile, the real burglar, hearing the skirmish, hides in a clothes closet until he is forced out by moth powder. The episode ends happily for everybody but the real burglar.

A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.

An unscrupulous and greedy speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.

A British archaeologist finds an ancient village that opens the door to a story of a Druid Ministre Airell in the time Christ and religious upheaval, revealing the mysteries of Briton, the Druids, the coming of a new world.

After his wife's sudden death, a man's life falls apart and he becomes a derelict. However, he starts to redeem himself when he comes across a young couple who is about to lose their property, and he decides to help them.

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love.

Modeled after a popular collection of stories known as "Brother Gardener's Lime Kiln Club," the plot features three suitors vying to win the hand of the local beauty.

A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

The "Uncle Tom's Cabin" troupe arrives in town and gives a show. The hotel proprietor is so impressed with it that he swaps his hotel for the troupe, but the outcome is disastrous, forcing him to admit, "Evil the day that I became an actor."

A primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters.

A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.

A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.

An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.

A king exacts vengeance upon his faithless mistress and her lover.

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.

After laboring for a couple of hours digging a "mess" of worms for the afternoon fishing trip, Bert Williams returns home for his fishing-pole only to find there is a big load of wood to be cut. Why should he cut wood when old "Pappy" and the younger brothers are there to do it. So while they are all working and "Mammy" is busy with the wash, Bert sneaks off with his pole and worms down to the fishing-hole. Scarcely has he "charmed" a worm and baited the hook when he pulls up a "tenpounder" and thinking it is a good day's catch starts home. As he goes along, he sees a house on top of a big hill and starts toward it with the hope of selling the fish for the Sunday dinner. The proprietor tells Bert he does not want his fish and after a long argument sends the dog after him. It does not take William long to go down the hill. When he reaches the bottom he looks up for a last look and sees the man of the house calling him back. Hopes now run high in his chest for selling the fish but after laboriously climbing the hill again, the proprietor tells him that he does not want any fish next Sunday either. In the meantime Bert's mother has missed him, and traces him to the house. She leads him home and to the wood-pile.

This is a delightful comedy of errors, in which a gold necklace figures prominently. Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a kiss. As she starts up she drops the necklace in the grass and their efforts to find it prove futile. Sam promises to buy her one to replace it, thinking it was her own properly. He has her minutely describe it that he may get an exact duplicate. Meanwhile, the governess has found the necklace and given it to its owner, Mazie, who is unknown to Sam. He sees it on Mazie's neck and after a chase insists on purchasing it. Mazie thinks him a lunatic and humors him, receiving a good price for the band. Nellie, upon receiving the necklace, restores it to Mazie. Sam meets Mazie again and sees the necklace again around her neck. This time he fancies she has stolen it and hurries to tell Nellie, but his valet takes more decided steps and recovers the necklace by seizure. Mazie is flabbergasted at first, and when she recovers her equanimity she rushes off for the village constable. He surprises Sam in the act of restoring the necklace to Nellie, who is also surprised. The participants of the episode are now assembled, and after the excitement has subsided, explanations and introductions bring peace.

Marie has two suitors. She accepts Victor and rejects Tony, who stabs Victor in a fit of jealousy. When he learns that Victor is still alive, he breaks into the room in Marie's house where Victor is convalescing and attacks him again. He is threatening to attack Marie when lawmen burst in and arrest him.

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do likewise. She sneaks out to a dance and the child takes a turn for the worse. By the time she returns home the child is dead. After her husband leaves her, the mother realizes her selfishness and begs forgiveness at her daughter's grave.